The autograph score was inherited by C.P.E. Bach where it is listed in his possession at the time of his death. The next owner was the Berlin Singakademie and it appears in their catalogue of Bach’s works as the ‘autograph score with original parts’ although the original parts came to the Singakademie via another route. The BB (Staatsbibliothek Berlin) acquired both in 1854 and this is where they are located today.

JJ. Doica Exaudi Sie werd euch in d Bann thun.[The word ‘Doica’ has what appears to be a curved phrase mark over the ‘oic’ to indicate the missing letters.]

First Performance:

May 13, 1725 (Dürr)

Text:

Once again (in reference to BWV 103, last week) the complete text by Christiane Mariane von Ziegler can be found in her collection of poetry, “Versuch in gebundener Schreibart,” that appeared in 1728. The questions always remains, as in last weeks cantata, whether Bach had access to an earlier version of Ziegler’s text, a text that she later changed, or whether he made the changes himself (whether for musical reasons or because he had to appease the forces of Enlightenment that prevailed in Leipzig so as to avoid criticism of the pietistically inclined text that Ziegler provided.) Here is her text from 1728 with Bach’s changes in square brackets: